6.1 Calculation of market prices

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When selling goods on the market, the market price decides how much money you receive. The price varies from product to product. Products that are produced from other products (e.g. alcohol, planks and toys) are more valuable than raw materials (e.g. oil, wheat and wood).

The price of a commodity can never drop below 5 iKr or rise above 100 iKr.

What decides the change of prices every midnight is the total number of produced units in the world of Tycoon Online the entire day. With the help of a multiplication factor, a value will be calculated by the server.

The multiplication factor balances the value of all commodities possible to produce. Wheat is a commodity that is used for two purposes (producing flour and alcohol), and is therefore given the factor 0.5. Pigs, on the other hand, can only be used to produce one goods (sausages), and is given the factor 1.0.

The server adds together the values of all commodities and calculates an average value by dividing the total amount of units produced with the number of different commodities there are in the game. Next, the average value is compared to the initial factor of the commodity, and from this, a percentage is calculated for each commodity. This percentage determines whether the price of the commodities will increase or decrease, and to what degree.

The degree of price change depends on the level of each product (see "The categories and levels of goods"). Naturally, a product that has gone through several stages of production is worth more than a raw material.

The price change of level 1 products range from -3 to +3.
The price change of level 2 products range from -6 to +6. The price of these goods has the potential to change twice as much as the level 1 products..
The price change of level 3 products range from -9 to +9. Thus, their prices can change three times as much every night as level 1 product..

To see a prediction of the development of market prices, you can check the "Trends" page. There, you will see the percentage that decides price changes calculated for all products. A low percentage means the price will rise. A percentage above 100% means the prices will fall. This is how much the prices will change for a level 1 product:

0 - 33% = +3
34 - 66% = +2
67 - 99% = +1
100 - 133% = -1
134 - 166% = -2
167 - 999% = -3


For a level 2 products, multiply the price change with two, and for level 3 products, multiply the change with three.

Some examples to better illustrate how prices change:

In the world of Tycoon Online, the following products were produced in the course of one day: 250 wood, 30 furniture, 180 sausages and 180 wheat, 100 fresh fish and 80 flour. The total amount of units produced was 3000. In this example we're going to use a total of 15 commodities. What was the average production of each commodity?
3 000 / 15 = 200 units. By how much did the price of wood change?
250 / 200 = 125% = -1 iKr/unit. By how much did the price of furniture change?
(30 x 5) / 200 = 75% = +1 iKr/unit. Furniture is a third level commodity. This means the change is multiplied by 3. +1 x 3 = +3 iKr. What about sausages?
(180 * 2) / 200 = 180% = -3 ikr/unit. Sausages is a second level commodity, therefore the change is multiplied by 2. -3 x 2 = -6 iKr. What about wheat?
180 / 200 = 90% = +1 iKr/unit. What about fresh fish?
100 / 200 = 50% = +2 iKr/unit. What about flour?
(80 * 2) / 200 = 80% = +1 iKr/unit. Flour is a second level commodity. This means the change is multiplied by 2. +1 x 2 = +2 iKr.

At the beginning of a new round, the different types of goods start out with the following prices:


Alcohol: 30 iKr
Bread: 67 iKr
Clothes: 76 iKr
Cotton: 12 iKr
Flour: 29 iKr
Fresh Fish: 10 iKr
Frozen Fish: 30 iKr
Furniture: 83 iKr
Gasoline: 22 iKr
Marble: 29 iKr
Newspapers: 78 iKr
Oil: 7 iKr
Paper: 35 iKr
Pigs: 11 iKr
Planks: 37 iKr
Plastic: 21 iKr
Sausage: 30 iKr
Stone: 10 iKr
Thread: 33 iKr
Toys: 48 iKr
Wheat: 10 iKr
Wood: 14 iKr



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